Selective Tone / Highlights too "broad"

[platypus (Canon & Mac (Intel and M1))]

There are many comments on selective tone sliders in this forum. Searching for “selective tone” reveals a lot of mentions, comments, workarounds etc.

Use a step wedge image to see what the sliders do. Check these posts and others for details:

White Slider

One last test in this topic, all images exported with DPL 5.1.1.52 on Mac Notes: I set white and black off in the TC tool to prevent over/under warnings. White will display as 253 (hard to see below), black as 0 Source TIFF can be found a few posts up. No Correction [11-step-0-asis] Exposure (±2.5) [11-step-2.5EVminus] [11-step-2.5EVplus] Exposure ±4.0 [11-step-4.0EVminus] [11-step-4.0EVplus] Tone Curve Bulge to gamma 0.5/1.5 [11-step-gamma0.5] [11-step-gamma1.5] Tone Curve Endpoi…

Setting dynamic range end points: Two methods and two questions

It’s an image I made in Photoshop. I call it “Crazy Grey”, see what it looks like: [Bildschirmfoto 2020-07-15 um 23.45.26] The strips go from 0 to 255 in 18 steps and are simply mirrored, stacked and surrounded by a medium grey border. The center cross is black and white with a medium grey dot in the middle.